For the third summer in a row, folk/rock legend Bob Dylan will mount a tour of minor-league ballparks throughout the US, in the midst of which he'll release a new studio album, reports liveDaily.com.
The outing, dubbed The Bob Dylan Show, gets underway in mid-August, and is scheduled to make stops in 17 ballparks by early September. Tickets, which go on sale next month, will be priced at $49.50, and children under 12 get in free with each adult ticket holder, according to organizers.
Joining Dylan and his band on the run will be guitarist
Jimmie Vaughan -- brother of the late
Stevie Ray Vaughan -- featuring veteran roadhouse singer Lou Ann Barton and Austin-based musician Junior Brown, who plays "
a demonic hybrid 'guit-steel' instrument, a combination 6-string electric guitar and pedal steel guitar, a device he cooked up one night in a dream," according to a press release.
On August 29, Dylan issues "Modern Times," his 44th album and first new set in five years.
According to Columbia Records, the album features 10 new Dylan originals he recorded this winter with his touring band -- guitarists Stu Kimball and Denny Freeman, multi-instrumentalist Donnie Herron, bassist Tony Garnier and drummer George Recile. Dylan sang and played keyboards, guitars, and harmonica.
The tour dates are as follows, according to liveDaily:
08/12 - Comstock Park, MI - Fifth Third Ballpark
08/13 - Columbus, OH - Cooper Stadium
08/15 - Lexington, KY - Applebee's Park
08/17 - Augusta, GA - Lake Olmstead Stadium
08/18 - Winston-Salem, NC - Ernie Shore Field
08/19 - Frederick, MD - Harry Grove Stadium
08/20 - Washington, PA - Falconi Field
08/23 - Reading, PA - First Energy Stadium
08/24 - Pawtucket, RI - McCoy Stadium
08/26 - Pittsfield, MA - Wahconah Park
08/27 - Manchester, NH - Merchantsauto.com Stadium
08/29 - New Britain, CT - New Britain Stadium
08/30 - Rochester, NY - Frontier Field
09/01 - Wappingers Falls, NY - Dutchess Stadium
09/02 - Cooperstown, NY - Doubleday Field
09/03 - University Park, PA - Medlar Field at Lubrano Park
09/05 - Fort Wayne, IN - Memorial Stadium
waaaaa boo hoo!
